How do I get the key at a specific index from a Dictionary in Swift?

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That’s because keys returns LazyMapCollection<[Key : Value], Key>, which can’t be subscripted with an Int. One way to handle this is to advance the dictionary’s startIndex by the integer that you wanted to subscript by, for example:

let intIndex = 1 // where intIndex < myDictionary.count
let index = myDictionary.index(myDictionary.startIndex, offsetBy: intIndex)
myDictionary.keys[index]

Another possible solution would be to initialize an array with keys as input, then you can use integer subscripts on the result:

let firstKey = Array(myDictionary.keys)[0] // or .first

Remember, dictionaries are inherently unordered, so don’t expect the key at a given index to always be the same.

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